: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Kalle Mattson : Album.......: Youth. : : Label.......: Kalle Mattson Music .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: KMM1001 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2018-11-04 Str.date....: 2018-09-07 Quality.....: 235kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://kallemattson.bandcamp.com/album/youth ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Once 4:38 2. Kids On The Run 3:18 3. Broken In Two 3:40 4. Strangers 3:38 5. Fades Away 4:21 6. My Holy Ghost 4:04 7. Searching For Somewhere 3:57 8. Without You 4:43 9. Running Against The Wind 5:12 10. Astronaut. 4:23 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 41:54 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 74.31 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: ôI didnÆt want to make another sad, folkie record there are a :, : lot of those in the world.ö Indeed there are, and Kalle Mattson : :' should know: the 27-year-old Ottawa musician first caught the ': ,: public ear with 2014Æs Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold, an album :, : that dealt with the death of his mother, when he was 16. His new : :' album, Youth., is a coming-of-age record about innocence lost, ': ,: promises denied, and the purgatory of oneÆs mid-20s. While he :, : may have written all the songs on acoustic guitar in his : :' bedroom, the electronics draped all over every song make it far ': ,: from what most people would consider a folk record. ôIf someone :, : puts me into a genre, itÆs always folk music,ö says the : :' singer-songwriter, who cites Kanye West as a production ': ,: influence on Youth. ôThere are elements of folk music, sure, but :, : I donÆt think thatÆs who I am. My motto going into this record : :' was: æFolk is dead.Æ ö ': ,: :, : Folk music is about storytelling, however, and thatÆs something : :' Mattson excels at: that was more than evident on the ': ,: thematically linked songs on Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold, :, : which was long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize. ôWriting in a : :' box was exciting and interesting to me,ö he says. ôHereÆs a ': ,: theme, so how far can I go with it, and how can I make it seem :, : like a cohesive piece?ö This time out he wrote about his time : :' growing up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, a small border town ': ,: between Great Lakes Superior and Huron. He credits ôthe Sooö :, : with giving him ambitionùto get the heck out of there. He wanted : :' to write about his friends who are still there, and about his ': ,: generation who are now between adolescence and adulthoodùthe :, : latter being a delayed concept in the modern world, when few : :' people yet feel confident on their life path by age 25. ôItÆs ': ,: about when dreams become your regrets, your friends become :, : strangers, your first love becomes your first loss, & you become : :' truly nostalgic for the first time,ö he says. ôI thought about ': ,: coming-of-age movies and novels, and couldnÆt think of many :, : coming-of-age albums.ö That is, except for two of his all-time : :' favourites: Bruce SpringsteenÆs Born to Run and Darkness on the ': ,: Edge of Town. :, : : :' Sonically, however, Youth. owes more to SpringsteenÆs Tunnel of ': ,: Love, with a lonely, ghostly timbre to the synths employed by :, : producer Colin Munroeùwho also worked on MattsonÆs 2015 EP : :' Avalanche, nominated for a JUNO Award. Munroe (Drake, Sky ': ,: Ferreira) dressed up MattsonÆs acoustic demos and shared :, : songwriting credit on tracks that are too catchy to be anything : :' but pure pop music. ôThis is a studio record,ö says Mattson. ôI ': ,: wanted to give it a specific feeling and vibe, to create its own :, : sonic world.ö Those early demos will be released as bonus : :' material, as well as remixes of some tracks; there is also an ': ,: entire version of Youth. made entirely with synths and drum :, : machines, which was shelved. The proper album is a marriage of : :' the songsÆ stark origins and MunroeÆs machinations. ': ,: :, : There are ghosts in those machines: ghosts of MattsonÆs : :' adolescence in Sault Ste. Marie, just as Someday the Moon dealt ': ,: with the ghost of his mother, and Avalanche dealt with the :, : ghosts of his musical forebearsùthe video for that EPÆs title : :' track, which won the 2016 Prism Prize, features Mattson ': ,: inserting himself into 35 of his favourite album covers, from :, : Tom Petty & Paul Simon to The Smiths & Jay-Z. On Youth., thereÆs : :' no trace of a retro vibe: itÆs full of Swedish-style pop songs ': ,: like ôKids on the Runö (ôMy attempt at writing a millennial :, : anthem,ö says Mattson) and 808-and-Heartbreak-ish ballads like : :' ôBroken in Twoöùbut also, yes, a couple of folk songs that ': ,: bookend Youth., the introductory ôOnceö, & the sparse, :, : banjo-driven conclusion, ôAstronaut.ö Folk is dead; long live : :' the folk artist. 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